This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Sat Jun 1 10:15:29 2024 Delivery-date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:28:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751444AbWAEW10 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:27:26 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.201]:34567 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751445AbWAEW1Y convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:27:24 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so795910wra for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:27:23 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=j9S5B4nMGPg5eHMoaeQfbV8hYanTf8P6XYuiczXi Received: by 10.65.119.13 with SMTP id w13mr1667716qbm; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.114.15 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:27:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <9a8748490601051427x1ab06565o2e7b76a28f2b42fc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 23:27:23 +0100 From: Jesper Juhl To: } Subject: Re: 80 column line limit? Cc: kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060105154330.da1016fc.grundig@teleline.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060105130249.GB29894@vrfy.org> <9a8748490601050527x407ff85dref45774d5eb131d9@mail.gmail.com> <20060105154330.da1016fc.grundig@teleline.es> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/5/06, }=02 wrote: > El Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:27:23 +0100, > Jesper Juhl escribi=F3: > > > I very often work in console (or xterm) and editing kernel code. Fi= les > > with lines >80 col. are quite annoying to have to scroll left/right= in > > I wonder why (we) people keeps working (and writing emails) with a 80 > cols limit - monitors are BIG these days and even the crappiest > graphic card can do better than 80x25 even without using fbcon. Is no= t I'm well aware that my hardware can easily do more than 80 columns, but that's simply not as pleasant to read. Even in X I usually keep my xterms to 80 columns and with a resonably large font so I don't have to strain my eyes too much when reading. > that breaking the 80-cols rules is annoying, working with such setups > are painful even to run basic shell scripts. These days hardware can = do > better things than 80-col consoles even for console users. > It's not about hardware capabilities, it's about readability. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/